Gerardo Montes de Oca Valadez (1978) is a psychotherapist, activist, artist and curator. He studied Psychology at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico, and Visual Culture at Aalto University in Finland. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, awarded with the DOC Fellowship Programme of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). His research project studies how Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (EZLN) and Congreso Nacional Indígena (CNI) contest colonial, capitalist, racist and patriarchal forms of domination, exclusion and violence in todays Mexico, and the ways in which solidarity and autonomy is built. His focus is on collective affectivity both as a form of politics and as a site of resistance that intersects with aesthetics in repertoires of presence, expression, representation, interpretation and performativity.